The Week Article Rating

Progressive candidate Brandon Johnson wins Chicago mayoral race

Apr 05, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Johnson, who had once called for "defunding" the police, vowed he would not cut "one penny" from the police budget but would focus on crime prevention, in part by funding social programs.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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